Not very multiagent-efficient... is this an attempt at extracting maximum value from customers via an elaborate one-sided mechanism that sometimes destroys value? Keltham is tempted to go pay them in spellsilver just before the news hits of the market price... okay not really that would not be nice, they could resell it on directly. Actually they should figure out how to announce that sometime very soon, people are trading at bad prices, Keltham forgot there wasn't any Governance office making sure about that sort of thing in Golarion.
Keltham trying to figure out a way to tell if this guy is actually Conspiracy Carissa. But that's sort of hard to do when Conspiracy Carissa is reading your mind about which tests you're thinking about trying.
No, he's not suddenly ripping off her headband, it's genuinely not nice, and also now that he's thought it the Conspiracy has invisibly tapped Carissa with a Fox's Cunning so she'll keep the same +4 bonus.
"It's been represented to me that women in Osirion can't own property. What's the logic of that from a business standpoint? Half of your economy isn't free to participate in the economy."